Same as usual, a collection of interesting news and information from around the internet;
UPDATE 1
Concrete Supply for New Airport at St Helena
K-Max Deployment Extended Yet Again (I think the USMC are on to a real winner here)
Think DefenceUK Defence Issues and the odd container or two
Worth suggesting that the RUSI paper of Defence procurement reform is worth a read too? Bernard Gray has got himself pretty worked up about it, he even wrote an article in the Times (his informal mouthpiece)!
Sorry hit send before I pasted the links and this crappy work system won’t let me use the edit function.
http://www.rusi.org/news/ref:N501674F3225F2/
http://www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/GOCO_Briefing.pdf
Thanks DJ, I read one of the principle dangers of going this route would be a lack of political accountability
And then I thought to myself
Thats exactly why they are doing it
I got the links from this blog: http://www.machiavellianmandarin.blogspot.co.uk/
Pretty much hints at the same thing as you do while raising past form on this sort of issue such as the railways and the NHS. Politicians just never learn!
Any indication of a UK evaluation of K-MAX, even if only to inform the RWUAS programme?
OOPS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/12/navy-destroyer-uss-porter-damaged